Focusing on Virginia Woolf and her circle, past and present

Woolf sightings: A lady pen of our own

The first of 20 Woolf sightings this week involves a BIC pen created for a woman. Yes, you read that right: a lady pen of our own. And the BIC For Her package features the color purple, Virginia’s favorite ink color. The pen, though, is sold in a variety of ladylike pastel colors.

NW by Zadie Smith: review, Telegraph.co.uk
I have to admit, the initial Virginia Woolf-style stream of consciousness gave me the discombobulated feeling that I was about to float away to the lighthouse: “Four gardens along, in the estate, a grim girl on the third floor screams Anglo-Saxon at …

Inventive ‘NW’ takes readers in a darker direction,USA TODAY
If she conjured E.M. Forster with On Beauty, NW channels Virginia Woolf. The modernist influence is deliberate, as Smith unravels — in a rhythmic stream-of-consciousness style — the intertwined stories of a group of contemporary Londoners in their …

Northern treat, Sun.Star
An English writer, Virginia Woolf, said so. She could have meant anything could be done well if only the stomach is served well too. In line with that is a somewhat similar thought: one cannot better celebrate its 23rd anniversary, if one has not any …

A Stream of Consciousness, National Football Post (blog)Virginia Woolf searched for the meaning of life in this rambling, stream of consciousness kind of way. I didn’t like reading her because of it. But now I think maybe there’s something to that. “The great revelation perhaps never did come,” said Woolf …

W&N to publish 100 years of New Statesman, The Bookseller
The book will feature a selection of writings that have appeared over the years, with picks from many of the magazine’s staff and contributors, including George Orwell, W B Yeats, H G Wells and Virginia Woolf. There will also be selections from …

Interview: Mustansar Hussain Tarar, DAWN.com
Nowadays, I am reading Iceland’s only Nobel Laureate, Halldór Laxness’ Independent People,Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The War of the End of the World. Also, Ibn Warraq’s Virgins, What Virgins? If I like a particular author …

Street Haunting exhibits at the British Museum include Virginia Woolf.

The city calls to its literary inhabitants, prompting them to roam its streets for inspiration, as Virginia Woolf does in her essay “Street Haunting,” and to transform it into the fantastical London Below of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, full of Black …

Exhibition links Tapawera artists, The Nelson Mail
Other pieces of text include the writing of Jules Verne and Virginia Woolf, the lyrics of a country and western song and a quote from a bemused 8-year-old boy: “Is that art or should I sit on it?” That observation came from the son of a friend of David …

A Q&A With Maya Angelou, Huffington Post (blog)
I’m a great admirer of Langston Hughes’ poetry and that of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Virginia Woolf. When I was trying to form my own voice, my own melody, I would read aloud, and I found it did me so much good. A lesser known fact about you is that …